Ella Braidwood

Anti-gay bullying may have contributed to the suicide of an 11-year-old girl and her best friend, says the father of one of the girls. Madissen Foxx Paulsen took her own life using her dad’s gun in December 2017 in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. Her best friend Sophia Leaf-Abrahamson, 11, then died by suicide in February(…)

An Alabama woman has become the first reported murder of a trans person in the US in 2019. Dana Martin was shot dead on Sunday (January 6) near the 3900 block of Brewer Road, Montgomery, reports local paper the Montgomery Advertiser. Police were called to a shooting at 11pm on January 6, where they found(…)

Grindr’s director of communications Landen Rafe Zumwalt has stepped down. (LandenRafe/Twitter) Grindr’s director of communications has resigned from his role, seemingly in response to the dating app’s president saying he believes that marriage is between a man and a woman. Landen Rafe Zumwalt, who is gay, published a post on Medium on December 7, explaining(…)

A university in New Jersey, USA, has decided that a Chick-fil-A restaurant will not be built on campus because of the chain’s anti-LGBT+ views. Students at Rider University reportedly voted for the Chick-fil-A branch as their top choice for a new food outlet on campus in a poll in spring. However, in an open letter(…)

A Chinese erotic writer has reportedly been jailed for more than 10 years after including gay sex scenes in one of her novels. State media reported that the writer, who uses the internet alias Tianyi, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison by a court in Anhui province for “producing and selling pornographic materials” in(…)

Police have arrested 10 women on suspicion of them being lesbians. (HUMAS SATPOL PP Padang/Facebook) Police have reportedly arrested 10 women on suspicion of lesbian activity in Indonesia. The women were detained in Padang, West Sumatra, over the weekend, reports Reuters. The Facebook account for Padang’s police force posted about the arrests on Monday (November(…)

Switzerland has voted to make homophobic and transphobic crimes punishable with up to a three year prison sentence. The National Council voted to criminalise homophobic and transphobic acts, putting it on a par with the way the country treats racism. The council voted 118 for and 60 against to introduce a prison sentence for homophobia(…)

Londonn Moore was found shot to death in the early hours of Saturday morning. (Londonn Moore/Facebook) PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world A transgender woman of colour has been found shot dead in Charlotte County, Florida. Londonn Moore is believed to(…)

More than half (51 percent) of trans male teenagers have attempted suicide in the past year, according to new research. The new study by researchers at the University of Arizona also found that more than four in 10 (42 percent) of non-binary adolescents and 30 percent of trans female teens had attempted suicide. Overall, more(…)